Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-08-01

like bees III box, until comfort and de
cency and cleanliness is impossible, and
! little children, this tOrrid weather.
DIE LIKE FLIES.
Don't the people then need more homes:
Is there any reason why they should not
have them? At this moment nearly
half the area of New York city is
made up of vacant lots. Why do not
the capitalists build? Because, before
anyone can 20 and build he must 20 10
the man who calls himself the owner and
pay big price DO away with that dog
in the manger DO away with the power
of any man To hold land under these cir
cumstanceS Take away that power and
how the demand for labor. and lumber,
and glass and nails would increase The
same thing is true everywhere
The speaker further illustrated this idea
by a reference to the coal fields OF Penn
sylvanla, and the oil regions, and also en-
forced it by calling attention to state
ment made to him by Mayor Seabright that
I'VE had spring of beer over i'll the hill ="
Other illustrations were also made. Con
timing be said:
by taking as near As possible the value
of land, and taxing it, we will take the
tax oil labor and the men who are holding
valuable land at high prices would have to
drop il. How long would the men who
own the vacant coal fields and half the area
of New York city hold on? Not long, and
natural Justice would he broughtabout. We
pOrpOse 10 tax the value of land Tor public
purposes. What makes its value Not
anything the owner does, but its natural
relations To what surround il. Nothing
that any one man does gives land its value
lie may go out i'll the far west and plant
an orchard, and build a house. lie thuscre-
ates value, hut it is in:the improvements,
and not in the land, for il lire should
sweep away the Improvements the land is
rs valulesS ~ that about il. That is what
We mean by
THE TRUE VALUE OF LAND.
If a man opens a mine, or builds house,
or makes two blades OF grass grow where
but one grew before, it belongs to him,
and he ought TO have the whole benefit,
but the land ought to bear the burdens.
and thus destroy the temptation to mo-
nOpolize natural opportunities. 1t is per
lNNllN Altsli lllll u All nave stl Ilkul
to live, we all have an equal right to land,
We cannot now divide up the land
and il we did it would not
De right, for an inch in New York City is
worth acres elsewhere. All we have to do
is to give each an equal share, not pre-
clsely in the land. but in the increasing
value Of the land. In that way We make
all landholdeTs The man who has
piece Of valuable land would pay AN amount
which, going to the community, would he
used for the good OF all, and having To do
he wanted it. What We want is simply TO
give all the children of God an equal
chance
The speaker here referred to the biz
fight made against him at the recent
election in New York City by the rich
men, and said they did il because they
knew this simple scheme would strike at
the heart OF their great wealth, and for the
time being they fought it down. Con
tinuing he said.
We hold that no one has the right to
demand work of anyone else God didn't
make man
on THAT BASIS.
lie put man in the world with everything
necessary, and he ought to have the
chance. Once open the opportunity to
unskilled labor TO 20 onto the land, open
our mines, etc, and you will lind the pres
sure on the labor market relieved
He said all men could btcOmc farmers |
that was the one thing every one could do |
But all need not do IT. 1t the land Was
opened all would not 20 on it, hut enough
would 20 10 relieve the pressure lie said
1t ought not to be hard tor men to live
in world rs rich ~ this We sometimes
say tina; there is too much wealth This |
IL mistake The trouble is in the M
lust distribution. Under the new dispcu
satiun
TEAMPs AND NILIIONAIRES
would 90 We would cease having the
very poor and the very rich, aud there
would he enough Of the nrcrssarics and
luNnrics of lite for ALL once We establish
society upon the fundamental principal,
and We will rapidly mount to 4 condition
when the necessity for hard toll will hr |
forgotten Christ told his disciples 10 |
take no thought for the morrow, either |
as to what yc shall eat, or what We shall !
drink, or what yr shall put on" If we
would do us He commanded, this |
would be possibility for all, DO to
Others rs yc would that they would do
unto YOU and there would he no
trouble, and il is for this |
that the cross Of the new crusade has been
elevated, and for tins that such ministers
Of God ~ DR.. MCGIynn and others have
gone ont 10 battle. The struggle has com
mencrd, and it must 20 on to the end.
Dur faith * becoming wider and deeper.
II is striking its roots all over the nitcd
States, and it Is for you now To study and
take sides in the great battle that is
beginning